Author Archives: The Hook

About The Hook

Husband. Father. Bellman. Author of The Bellman Chronicles. Reader of comic books and observer and chronicler of the human condition. And to my wife's eternal dismay, a mere mortal and non-vampire. I'm often told I look like your uncle, cousin, etc. If I wore a hat, I'd hang it on a hat rack in my home in Niagara Falls, Canada. You can call me The Hook, everyone else does.

100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #40.

Posted on 2019/04/22

I’ve been doing my best (mostly) to dissuade you, my fellow humans, from taking your own lives but let’s assume for a moment that my skills don’t really extend beyond packing a luggage cart like a boss while extracting a … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #41.

Posted on 2019/04/20

We’re told pretty much from the nanosecond we complete our violent escape from the womb to do unto others as we’d want done to us and all that jazz, which is all well and good, but sometimes we need to … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #42.

Posted on 2019/04/18

When Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1978 he not only created an innovative and endlessly-entertaining-but-dry-as-the-Sahara science-fiction story that would be adapted to a variety of formats, he gave us everything we need to survive and … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #43.

Posted on 2019/04/16

As my legion of longtime readers can attest, I am a hardcore Murdochian. This declaration, of course, inspires two questions for some of you: Do I really have the nerve to claim I have a “legion” of followers? What in … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #44.

Posted on 2019/04/14

When the incomparable B.B. King sang “The Thrill Is Gone” he was lamenting the loss of a love, not a life, but the latter certainly applies. Remove the thrill from anything, whether it be an affair, a career, certainly a  … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #45.

Posted on 2019/04/12

If visiting the dentist is one of your reasons for living then today’s topic will really light your fire. Or to be more accurate, it will really make your dentist happy – eventually. But that’s the future. This series is … Continue reading →

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100 Reasons To Not Kill Yourself #46.

Posted on 2019/04/10

It has charms to soothe a savage breast, or so I’ve been told. (I try to avoid savage breasts whenever possible.) It’s been emitted from a car radio, a stereo, or even a store’s muzak system while many of us … Continue reading →

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